I am making a baby quilt to donate to a local charity and am following the Missouri Star tutorial on making a strip quilt, then cutting them into squares and then doing some cutting. My question is, if I sew 4, two and a half in strips together, how do I cut the strips into a square? Is the correct measurement 10inches because 4 x 2.5 = 10, or do I have to take into account the seam allowance and cut them more like 8 1/2?
PLEASE HELP! JC